Piet Mondrian: 1872-1944; Structures in Space (Basic Art)
by Susanne Deicher
from Taschen
Masters of Art: Mondrian (Masters of Art Series)
by Hans L.C. Jaffe
from Harry N. Abrams
Complete Mondrian
by Marty Bax
from Lund Humphries Publishers
Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings
by Harry Cooper
from Harvard University Art Museums
Just before World War II, Piet Mondrian fled from Paris to London and later to New York, where he lived until his death in 1944. Upon his arrival in Manhattan, the artist began reworking seventeen of the paintings he brought with him, many of which had already been finished and exhibited. He changed lines and added blocks and bars of color to give them what he called "more boogie-woogie."
In this groundbreaking book, Harry Cooper, an authority on Mondrian's art, and Ron Spronk, an expert on the technical examination of paintings, investigate the artist's so- called transatlantic paintings and his unusual working method during this period. Their collaboration offers an intimate look into the studio of one of the greatest modern artists and establishes a new model for the integration of art history, theory, and technical analysis.
The book begins with two essays by Cooper that discuss the critical reception of Mondrian's work, the place of the transatlantic paintings in the evolution of his art, and the particular significance of their dates and titles. Spronk's essay presents technical discoveries based on the authors' original research, reproducing and interpreting many new X-radiographs, photomicrographs, and photographs taken under ultraviolet and infrared light. The catalogue features such major paintings as Place de la Concorde (1938–43) from the Dallas Museum of Art and No. 12 (1936–42) from the National Gallery of Canada. Each work is discussed in a comprehensive entry accompanied by a dazzling array of illustrations that take the reader under the surface of the painting to reveal its genesis.
This is the catalogue for an exhibition that opens at the Harvard University Art Museums in April 2001 and then travels to the Dallas Museum of Art.
Piet Mondrian
by Joop M. Joosten
from Harry N. Abrams
Mondrian: On the Humanity of Abstract Painting
by Meyer Schapiro
from George Braziller
Piet Mondrian: 1872-1944
The New Art--the New Life: The Collected Writings Of Piet Mondrian (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)
by Harry Holtzman
from Da Capo Press
Piet Mondrian: Color, Structure And Symbolism
by Hans Locher
from GACHNANG & SPRINGER
Artwork by Piet Mondrian. Text by Hans Locher.
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